DREAM Act Rally Joins Community

More than a dozen San Francisco students, politicians and community organizers gathered this morning in front of Mission High School to rally around the DREAM Act. The piece of legislation – expected to go up for Congressional vote as early as this week – would give undocumented students a pathway to legal status.

“Let’s hope people in Congress hear us [today],” said Supervisor David Campos, who was once undocumented. Support for the DREAM Act “should transcend party lines,” he continued. “Let’s hope something happens as soon as possible.”

Immigration agents raided his home, handcuffed him and threw him in a detention cell, he explained. He was later transferred to a center in Arizona, where he was only let out one hour a day to see the sun.

“I woke up in jail everyday thinking I should be at school, be with my friends.”

ince his release, he has become spokesperson for the DREAM Act because, “I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did.” DREAM stands for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors.

Li considers himself American. “I’m a big Giants fan.,” he told Mission Loc@l. “When they won, I was so pissed. People were celebrating and I was there, incarcerated.”